Samba Printing Problem

Steve Litt slitt at troubleshooters.com
Wed Dec 15 22:25:01 GMT 1999


You have two printcap name= lines. Delete one. If this is a Linux box,
delete the one saying lpstat. If you have a SYSV printing system, delete
the printcap name=/etc/printcap line and change your printing= to SYSV.

Steve Litt

At 08:46 AM 12/16/1999 +1100, Hillel Bilman wrote:
>Greetings
>
>I've installed Samba and I've a printing problem which you
>can see from the log file.
>
>The error I get from the /var/log/log.smb is :
>   Unable to open printcap file lpstat for read!
>
>In the /etc/smb.conf file I have:
>debug level = 3
>   load printers = yes
>   printcap name = /etc/printcap
>   printcap name = lpstat
>   printing = bsd
>
>Any help appreciated
>



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